Securitizing Immigration: The Politics of Risk in the EU

by Palgrave Macmillan UK

Overview

Securitizing Immigration deals with the growing concern for immigration as a matter of security at the EU level. It combines an analysis of the way bureaucratic and political processes have interacted in the integration process with an analysis of how these practices are located in a context shaped by the preoccupation with risk.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780230200067
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan UK
Publication date:	10/09/2009
Series:	Palgrave Studies in International Relations
Edition description:	2009
Pages:	177
Product dimensions:	5.60(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

RENS VAN MUNSTER is Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) and teaches security studies at the Department of Political Science, University of Southern Denmark. His research focuses on the politics of risk and the securitization of immigration in the EU. His work has been published in international peer reviewed journals, including Alternatives, European Journal of International Relations, International Relations and Security Dialogue.

Table of Contents

Introduction Immigration and the Emergence of a European Threat Environment The Maastricht Treaty: The Formalization of the Immigration/Security Nexus Amsterdam and Beyond: Immigration and the Establishment of an AFSJ Freedom, Mobility and Abjection: The Management of Immigration Risk in the AFSJ Unmaking Security, Remaking Belonging Conclusion: The EU as an Area of Security, Security and … Security